Recent content by rocketflyer

Yep. I ended up returning mine. There's simply not enough clearance and all the cases in the store had the same warpage. it's no cheap pelican that's for sure.

On reading this I watched that particular segment and TBH I didn't get that impression at all. Sure, a bit of hyperbole and mostly a discussion on specs, but I think the key point was the guest photographer's statement that it would inspire people to get outdoors. Ergo, a drone for the...

You mean metro hobbies? Wow I bought my first (and only) futaba from them years ago. Good to hear they're still going.

Litchi mostly.

Just noticed recently on starting that I would get a calibrate imu alert message after the craft has initialised. But when I look at the calibration menu the active imu acc/gyro readings would start off at "poor" then gradually change to "excellent" over the course of some minutes and would be...

If it's not on their list it means they haven't tested it, not that you will likely have problems. Plenty of current android devices work fine. Older devices however usually don't have enough horsepower to process the video feed (cheap tablets are the usual culprits). From my perspective, if...

Interesting - how is it connected to the phantom? Edit: NVM I see from the video it uses a light sensor taped to the running light. Have to agree with tbird that it's priced far too high. Easily DIY'd for probably less than $30.

Er You know that these are the specs for the P4 camera, right?

I said the P4 is more wind resistant, not that the mavic was poor in this regard.

mavic fov is 78.8degrees but still quite a bit less than the P4.

Generally on par, with slightly better low light performance. However when you shoot over 30fps you can get bad aliasing as a result of the camera dji uses (you can search for this - it doesn't seem to bother many people and only becomes apparent in certain circumstances).

Nope - moved to P4 from a P3S even though the mavic was released. The P4 is still more wind resistant and none of the high fps video issues on the mavic. Although if I had a P3P I would get the mavic (or P4P if you have the cash) over the P4 - the extra P4 obstacle avoidance isn't that big an...

Flytron strobes?

I don't lose any sleep over it. When I bought mine I wasn't expecting these features so it really is a bonus for P4 owners if and when it appears.

It's just a simple parallel connection with your existing battery so your craft is drawing juice from all batteries at the same time.